Improvement in combined wire-cutter and shears



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Letters Patent N o. 98,843, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN' COMBINED WIRE-CUTTER AND SHEARS.

The S'hedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BRoMBAcHExn of Tarrytown, in the county of Westchester, and State of New York, have invented and made a new and ust-ful Combined Wire-Cutter and Shears, audthe'following is declared to be a correct description thereof.

In the manufacture of tin and sheet-metal ware, considerable wire is used to stii'en the edges. It has heretofore been usual for the workman to use the ordinary snips or shears for cutting the wire, so as to save the handling of a separate tool, and also' its cost of purchase. This is attended with diiculty, because thewire slides forward between -the edges of the snips, untilat such a. distance from t-he rivet or fulcrum, that the workman does not have. suiieient power in the hand to cut oft' the Wire;`besides this, the cutting-edges are notched and injuredby the wire.

The nature of my said invention consists in a combined wire-cutter and shears, formed by one or more pert'orations through the shear-blade, near the jointpin, and contiguous to the edge of the other blade of the shears, so that wire can he passed through such hole and separated by closing the shears. By this construction the wire is held, and does notslip along upon the edge of the shears while -being out, and the cut is performed at a portion of the blade that is not usually employed in shearing sheet-metal, alud the leverage of the handles is suiicient to enable the workman to out the wire ofi` with ease.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a side view of the shears or snips and wire-cutter, and Y Figure 2 is a section at the line x :11.

' a, and b are the shear-blades, formed with the respective handles c d, and e is the fulcrurn or4 jontpin or screw. These part-s are to be of any desired size or shape. l

is the hole in the blade through which the wire to be eut is inserted, as at g, so as to be separated by the edge of the blade b.

This hole i is to be of any desired size, and located suiiiciently near the joint e, to give the handles c d the necessary leverage.

More than one hole i may be provided, and the size of such hole or holes is to be suiiicient for passing as large wire as the shears are adapted to euttiug.

1 claim, as my invention- The combined wire-cutter and shea-rs, in the manner specified.

Dated November 30, 1869.

GH'AS. BROMBAGHER.

constructed Witnesses:

y OHAS. H. SMITH,

Guo. T. PINOKNEY. 

